Not really a Perl answer, but on most Unixes (and Linux) you can use the utility lsof(8). Example: 
lsof /etc/passwd

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Will tell you whether /etc/passwd is currently opened by another process, the pid of that process and a whole lot of other useful stuff. 
lsof +D /etc

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will give you all open files in a directory. 
lsof -p 12345

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will give you all files opened by the process with the pid 12345.

Apply your favourite variant of backticks or open to examine the output in Perl.

Hmm, given that there's no Perl wrapper module for lsof in CPAN (and Linux::Fuser is Linux-only), maybe it'd be worthwhile writing one?

In reply to Re: Check whether a file is open by tirwhan
in thread Check whether a file is open by knsridhar

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